Response to drought among farmers and herders in southern Kajiado District, Kenya: A comparison of 1972-1976 and 1994-1995
Response to drought among farmers and herders in southern Kajiado District, Kenya: A comparison of 1972-1976 and 1994-1995
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10.1023/a:1018789623581
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发表时间：
1999-09-01
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2
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Campbell, DJ
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Campbell, DJ
本文研究了东南欧农牧社区应对粮食短缺战略的连续性和变化。肯尼亚Kajiado地区，通过对1977年和1996年进行的调查中报告的应对战略进行比较。它提供了经验证据，证明一个容易经常发生与干旱有关的粮食不安全的农村社会对外来和地方政治、经济、社会和人口以及环境进程之间复杂的相互作用作出了动态反应。它表明，虽然来自国家和国际层面的驱动力为发展变化创造了广泛的背景，但地方进程起到了中介作用。随着这些情况的改变，应对粮食不安全的选择也随之改变。这些选择的可用性根据一个人的年龄、性别和社会经济地位而有所不同。这种活力和差异是农村发展所固有的，应使发展规划者和那些寻求将应对战略监测作为饥荒预警系统组成部分的人了解情况。
This article examines continuity and change in farming and herder communities' strategies for coping with food deficits in S.E. Kajiado District, Kenya, through a comparison of coping strategies reported in surveys conducted in 1977 and 1996. It provides empirical evidence of the dynamic responses that one rural society prone to recurrent drought-related food insecurity has made to the complex interactions between exogenous and local political, economic, social and demographic, and environmental processes. It demonstrates that although driving forces emanating from national and international scales create the broad context for developmental change, local processes mediate these. As these alter, so no the options available for coping with food insecurity. The availability of these options differs according to a person's age, gender, and socio-economic status. Such dynamism and differentiation is inherent in rural development and should inform development planners and those seeking to include monitoring of coping strategies as a component of famine early-warning systems.